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All over the world there are people who fall by the wayside. People who are outcasts and being stared at. But even if you are outside the group, there is always someone who takes care of you. Next week Metropolis is looking for the black sheep and their shepherds in the world.

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We say goodbye with a kiss

06/06 The final topic of this season is the kiss. Kissing may seem harmless, but in many places in the world, it's actually quite a big deal. Ali in Pakistan is not even allowed to kiss his fiancee and 17 year old Karina from Peru saves her first kiss for the man she wants to marry. Read more...

We say goodbye with a kiss

June 13, 2013

The final topic of this season is the kiss. Kissing may seem harmless, but in many places in the world, it's actually quite a big deal. Ali in Pakistan is not even allowed to kiss his fiancee and 17 year old Karina from Peru saves her first kiss for the man she wants to marry.

Karina considers the moment she gives her first kiss as almost sacred. Therefore it makes her kind of nervous, but her friend Susan helps her out by teaching her a few kissing tricks in front of the mirror. Because when they go out and she bumps into Mr. Right, she wants to know how to handle him.

In the Chinese capital Beijing, kissing in public is very inappropriate. Restaurant Shao Rou Ren is breaking the rules with a very remarkable offer: ten seconds of french kissing in exchange for a free plate of beef tongue. And as a customer you are allowed to do that with your date or with one of the members of the staff. Waiter Chezi benefits from this.

In the USA we take a kissing class together with actress Leah from New York. Over here she learns how to kiss with a random co-star, because these stage kisses take quite a lot of practice.

Next week in Metropolis: The kiss. Reports will be online on June 13 at 9.00 pm.

The kiss is the last topic of this season. In november new reports will be online!

Outsiders

06/04 All over the world there are people who fall by the wayside. People who are outcasts and being stared at. But even if you are outside the group, there is always someone who takes care of you. This week Metropolis is looking for the black sheep and their shepherds in the world. Check out a preview!
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Outsiders

June 2, 2013

All over the world there are people who fall by the wayside. People who are outcasts and being stared at. But even if you are outside the group, there is always someone who takes care of you. Next week Metropolis is looking for the black sheep and their shepherds in the world. Check out a preview!

There is living much 'riff-raff' in the South African Fietas district. Therefore you have to go pretty far to be seen as an outsider. Jan has made it to be the outsider of the neighborhood though. "He's crazy. It looks like he's a circus act," neighbors say about Jan. Jan dances on the street in a pink bra, with a bottle of beer to his toothless mouth all day. Jan used to be a postman. With the abolition of Apartheid, he lost his job to the 'blacks', he explains. Because of the drinking he became down in the world. But every outcast has a guardian angel. For Jan that is his landlord Marius, who takes Dirty Jan under his wing.

Lilibeth from the Philippines is also being stared at by her neighbors. She is a small person, which the most Filipinos do not really like. "If I see a dwarf like her, I run away as fast as I can," her neighbor says. But Lilibeth is not letting herself daunted, and found her salvation in the 'Hobbit House', a bar where all the employees are little. They serve drinks and food and entertain the guests on stage. "Customers find us special. They insult us sometimes, but I ignore those comments," Lilibeth says wisely. Despite the dwarf jokes people make, she is pleased to have a paid job in the Hobbit House in Manila.

Reports on Outcasts will be online on Thursday june 6, 9pm.

Metropolis at Sprout Film Festival New York

05/30 Reports of Metropolis are frequently screened at film festivals all over the world. This weekend two of our reports on Down Syndrome will be screened at the Sprout Film Festival in New York. The festival focusus on films about people with developmental disabilities. Read more...

Metropolis at Sprout Film Festival New York

May 30, 2013

Reports of Metropolis are frequently screened at film festivals all over the world. This weekend two of our reports on Down Syndrome will be screened at the Sprout Film Festival in New York. The festival focusus on films about people with developmental disabilities.

'Breaking the cage' tells the story of the Cambodian Savary, who is locked up in a cage. Many Cambodians think Down syndrome is contagious. Moreover they think it is caused by bad karma of a child’s parents. When her parents leave, Savary therefore is locked up in a cage, often the whole day. In this situation recently something has changed: Savary visits a school a few days a week.

'Thinking about the future in Russia' is about Lena, who raises her daughter with Down Syndrome all by herself. 85 percent of Russian children with Down is handed over to the state by their parents. But the institutions don’t have special treatments for Downies and conditions are bad. Lena decided to raise her daughter Masja herself. She had to find out everything without any help and she worries about her child’s future.